Improvement in show-cases



climat 55m/e5 GEORGE A. HEARN, JR., or NnwYonK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No.A 113,660, dated April 11, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN eHow-CASES.

The Schedule referred `to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. HEARN, Jr., of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Show-Cases;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in theait to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying' drawingforming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improve-- ment in show-casesfor merchants use, more espe cally designed for the dry-goods trade andfor the most costly varieties of goods, as kid gloves, laces, silks,85e., and consists in the arrangement of two or more glass-coveredcompartments, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 represents a top or plan view ofacase constructed according to my invention.

Figure `2 is a vertical cross-section of fig. l taken on the line x x.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In this example of my invention I show a case of three tiers orcompartments, marked A, B, and C, one elevated above another, asrepresented in tig. 2; but there may be any desired number of tiers morethan one, and made of any desired length or width.

My object is t0 provide a convenient case for exposing goods for saleunder glass, the goods being visible to both buyer and seller, andreadily taken from the caseby the seller. The case is placed upon thecounter, and the tiers or compartments are open on the side of theseller, the first and lowest opening being next the seller, and theother tiers and openings,

as they rise in height, vbeing farther from the seller.

D I) represent the ends of the case.

E E E represent the plate-glass coverings of the compartments.

F represents metallic clasps, which secure the plates of glass to theends D D.

G G Gare openings under the glass plates, extending the entire length ofthe case.

The compartment A may be `placed at an angle with the counter, or may beparallel to the counter.

The advantages of' this improvement are that a great variety andquantity of goods can be shown in a small space in such a manner thatthey are protected from dust and from being handled by persons passing.In a three-tier case, six and a half feet long, there can be pnt onehundred and twenty dozen of gloves, worth, say, thirty dollars perdozen, amounting to three thousand six hundred dollars, and every pairvcan be seen, as the gloves are packed in boxes edge,

wise, the color and shade of each pair being distinctly visible.

The seller can with Very little trouble arrange the stock, can readilylay his hand on any particular box.`

and pair of gloves, is not obliged to turn from customers to procure thegoods required, and can see at a glance that the stock offered for saleis in good order.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentev A show-casecomposed of two or more glass-cov ered compartments or tiers,constructed substantially as shown and described, and for vthe purposesset forth.

GEORGE A. HEARN, JR.

Witnesses:

GEORGE W. MABEE, T. B. MosHnB.

